Engines of Our Ingenuity
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The story of technological progress is one of drama and intrigue, sudden insight and plain hard work. Let’s explore technology’s spectacular failures and many magnificent success stories.This content is in service of Houston Public Media’s education mission and is sponsored by the University of Houston. It is not a product of our news team.
Episodes (137)
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1533: The Triple Nickel
Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1532: Typewriters
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1531: Only a Theory
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2562: Paul Samuelson and the textbook Economics
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3354: Wharton Esherick
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3266: New Year Fireworks
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3353: Sandrin
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1530: The Medieval Mason
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1529: Osborne Reynolds
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1527: Polio and Clean Water
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2559: Going, Going, Gone!
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2035: The Gunpowder Plot
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2739: Hall
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1526: Learning to Talk
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1525: Liberty Ships
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1524: The Great Peshtigo Fire
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1523: Lighthouses and Cabooses
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2556: Hilbert and Euclid’s Elements
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3352: A Taste of Orange
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3350: Pickering’s Harem
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3351: Crossbow
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1522: Fifty Years in the Future
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1521: John P. Parker
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1520: Automobile Drag Coefficients
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2555: Google Books
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2862: Randomness
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3349: Inhuman Distances
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1519: Seeing Around the Corner
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1518: Looking for Reality
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1517: A Tripartite Bridge
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1516: Saving the Lore
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2554: Slogans and Jingles
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3090: Friedrich Richard Petri
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2881: Racial Mythologies: Günther vs. Huxley
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1515: Oxygen
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1514: The Resistence Movement
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1513: The Accidental Creationist
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1512: The Corner Store
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2552: Frederick the Great, Patron of the Arts
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2836: Bumping Into Signs
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2243: Organizing for Disaster
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1511: Lotus and High-Tech
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1510: Thomas Sopwith
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1509: Roads, Canals, and Railways
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1508: Alchemy
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2550: Napoleon’s Theorem
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3244: Bias in Face Recognition Software
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1856: Form and Feeling
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1507: Lighter Than Air
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The Engnines of Our Ingenuity 1506: The First Mechanical Clocks
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